Re: [cdt-dev] Freeze invisible GDB variable objects

[Raphael Zulliger <zulliger@xxxxxxxx>]

On 09/22/2014 04:46 PM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On 08/20/2014 05:54 PM, Mikhail Khodjaiants wrote:
> > On 20/08/2014 6:03 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > > I think an alternative question is "is this TreeItem collapsed or 
> > > not" - I recall writing scary code to detect this with CDI,
> > > but I don't know how do to it with DSF.
> >
> > The code for CDI was really scary, but the DSF version you wrote for 
> > our commercial product seems to be OK. You can contribute it to CDT 
> > :-) .
>
> Oh, I actually forgot I ported it over.
>
> So yeah, we have a patch that is geared to big varobj trees, which 
> uses -var-set-frozen to stop updates of subtrees
> that are collapsed. So, for big data structures or for slow hardware 
> registers, it makes a lot of difference.
>
> Is there interest in having this upstream?
From our side: definitely!